Christmas at Work

 

Every year I make some sort of holiday offering for my co-workers.  This year, there are six people on my team, along with others who are temporarily squished into our row too.  There are also a couple of my other cronies I wanted to gift.  Last year I gave out big bars of cranberry soap.  This year I made small gift bags.  I used an assortment of items that I could buy in batches of a dozen.

These little favors contained a scent sachet, a cranberry scented tea light, candy, paper snow flakes, bells and candy.  They were cheap and easy to put together because everything was on sale.  This kind of gift is thoughtful without being "too much."  We have a Secret Santa gift swap on the 21st and I bought a Google Play gift card for that.  Dollar General had them for 10% off, so I made it under the $20 spending limit. I am making an Ugly Christmas sweatshirt because there will be a contest. I will post that when it's done.

I have a team of Client Support Specialists that help me out.  While I am an account/relationship manager, there are lots of things my clients need help with and this team takes their calls and emails, offer to help me with problems, and are just all around fine folks.  There are four who are assigned to the line of business I work for and I wanted to get them something too -- so I personalized Santa hats. I will drop them on their desks tomorrow with a small bottle of sparkling cider for each.

Gifts don't need to be expensive to show people you are thinking of them.  Anything that spreads happiness is fine by me! I am not religious but I sure do appreciate the spirit of the season.